Sustainable development in practice
Subtitle: sustainomics methodology and applications
By: Mohan Munasinghe ; foreword by James Gustave Speth.
Series: Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND) Series on growth and sustainable development -- 6
Publisher: Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND)
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Gaithersberg MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 633
ISBN-13: 9780521895408
Subjects: Sustainable development -- Economic aspects; Sustainable development -- Social aspects; Sustainable development -- Environmental aspects
Description: This text provides a practical analysis of sustainable development prospects today by applying the innovative sustainomics framework. It illustrates the methodology with empirical case studies that are practical and policy-relevant over a range of time and geographic scales, countries, sectors, ecosystems and circumstances.
Table of contents: title: Overview and summary; title: Sustainomics framework; title: Economics of the environment; title: Ecological and social aspects; title: Global analytical applications; title: International process applications : multi-level, multi-stakeholder, trans-disciplinary dialogues; title: National economywide applications; title: Mathematical macro-model applications; title: Computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling applications; title: Energy sector applications; title: Transport sector applications; title: Water resource applications; title: Ecological and agricultural system applications; title: Resource pricing policy applications; title: Project applications; title: Local applications - hazards, disasters and urban growth.